Chapter 24 Chapter Outline

Development and the Environment: Biotic, Abiotic, and Symbiotic Regulation of Development

Developmental Plasticity: The Environment as an Agent in Producing Normal Phenotypes

  • Diet-induced polyphenisms
  • Predator-induced polyphenisms
  • Temperature as an environmental agent
  • Reaction norms in plants
  • Larval settlement
  • Stress as an agent: The hard life of spadefoot toads

Developmental Symbioses

  • Developmental symbioses in plants
  • Mechanisms of developmental symbiosis: Getting the partners together
  • Developmental symbiosis in the mammalian intestine

Coda

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